The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography has awarded Dr. Walter R. Boynton this distinguished honor in recognition of his research to solve environmental problems and shape policy with long-lasting impacts on estuarine ecosystems.
The prestigious honor has gone to just seven people in nearly three decades. Maryland Sea Grant College awards the medal jointly with Virginia Sea Grant and the Chesapeake Research Consortium.
A new system, called WhaleWatch, produces monthly maps of blue whale "hotspots" to alert ships where there may be an increased risk of encountering these endangered whales.
On September 10, the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons unveiled a new, state-of-the-art building dedicated to the lab’s founding director, Reginald Truitt.
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Maritime Environmental Resource Center has a mobile test platform that evaluates the performance of ballast water treatment technologies before they are installed on ships to ensure they meet U.S. Coast Guard requirements.
